The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-03-24

Governor Bodwell has reappointed Judge
Virgin As Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court.
tuberculosis has been discovered at Garland
and Commissioners Bailey and Bell have
slaughtered three cattle there.
The estimate for the State tax for 1881 and
ISIS is about So. 900 less than the amount
raised in 1856.
1t is reported that the lot known AS s.rhe
Devils lIalf-Acre'' at Bar IIarbor has been
sold for $4,000.
The work of erecting the Maine monuments
at Gettysburg will begin in the spring and it is
expected to push it rapidly forward to com
pletion.
Hon. A. G. Lebroke was unanimously elect
ed Town Agent at Foxcroft at the annual
meeting OF that town on Monday last. This
was his twenty-seventh election to that Office
since 1850.
Burnham & Morrill,, of Portland, have con-
tracted with the farmers of DiNtield for 300
acres of sweet corn. They will erect a factory
this spring. With the new spool mill by Mer-
rill of Searsport, +. Stanley and +. G. Rey-
nolds, DiXfeld will have a business boom.
The Rockland Free Press says on the author
ity of Superintendent White, of the Knox Il
Lincoln Railroad that the passenger travel be-
tween Rockand and Thomaston was 60 per
cent greater during January, 1887, than in
January 1856.
Ellsworth people are discussing the plan of
opening coffee room, with plenty of books
saloon and billiard rooms.
Mr. PaysOn Tucker has informed the Grand
Army post of Portland that if a monument is
erected on the soldiers and sailors lot in Ever
green Cemetery he will furnish the granite
base.
All of the business of the Maine Central re-
pair and paint shops, in Augusta, will be re-
moved to Waterville in June. The buildings
at Augusta will be torn down. with the eX-
ception of the paint shop, which may he used
rs a coal shed.
The Directors of the Bangor & Piscataquis
Railroad at their meeting last week chose Hon.
A. q. Wakefield. President but he declined
and Hon. 4. Ii. Neallcy was elected. Arthur
Brown, Esq, was elected Superintendent and
ii. w. Blood Clerk and Treasurer, as usual.
Rev. DIR. Robins, formerly president of Col
by University and now residing at Jena, Ger
many, intends to send to the college library at
WaterviIle the 'Lehrplan" of the Jena gynna-
SUM. He suggests that it might be well to fix
a course of studies continuously through the
academies and the university, and sends the
course with that idea in mind.
Pennington is already rising from its ashes.
A large three-stOry hotel on the site of the old
Exchange is approaching completion. A. ID.
Horn has built large livery stable. Active
preparations are now going on for an early
start on other structures. These include four
large blocks Of stores, three churches. Il town
house, engine house and many private dwell
ings.
A meeting of natives of the State of Maine
residing i'm Cambridge, Mass, was held in the
Central Square Police Building, Cambridge
port, Wednesday evening March 10th, for the
purpose of forming a Sons Of Maine Club.
Capt. Folsom Officiated as chairman and AlOn-
20 S. Hartman as clerk. Twenty-eight gentle
men were present. A committee of seven was
appointed to draw up a constitution and set of
bylaws 10 report at the next meeting, to be
held on the 26th inst.